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Between Silk and Cyanide: A Codemaker's War, 1941-1945 QUOTES

Between Silk and Cyanide: A Codemaker's War, 1941-1945 QUOTES

1 " The need to justify and its sister frailty, the need to boast, were lethal weaknesses in SOE. "

― , Between Silk and Cyanide: A Codemaker's War, 1941-1945

2 " There were only three things which SOE's agents could anticipate with confidence. That their parachutes would open, that their L-tablets would kill them, and that their messages from London would be accurately encoded. "

― , Between Silk and Cyanide: A Codemaker's War, 1941-1945

3 " The bloody-minded resilience with which they responded to disasters, especially those of their own making, their determination to liberate their territories no matter what, had been my first glimpse of what would one day be known as the Spirit of Resistance. "

― , Between Silk and Cyanide: A Codemaker's War, 1941-1945

4 " He began the interview by asking what my hobbies were.
"Incunabula and intercourse, sir."
It slipped out and wasn't even accurate; I'd had little experience of one and couldn't afford the other. "

― , Between Silk and Cyanide: A Codemaker's War, 1941-1945

5 " I needed the company of another failure to make my own bearable. "

― , Between Silk and Cyanide: A Codemaker's War, 1941-1945

6 " There is a special loneliness in unshared music, even if it was 'The White Cliffs of Dover'. "

― , Between Silk and Cyanide: A Codemaker's War, 1941-1945